North Atlantic service

I would like to add something to the letter by Terry D. Lanyi (Readers Write, March 2), concerning license plates to honor veterans. How about the veterans who served in the Norht Atlantic for many months before Pearl Harbor was attacked? They made many trips with convoys of ships destined for England and probably their allies. These veterans protected the convoys from German U-Boats and were in the many North Atlantic storms that made the typhoon that hit Okinawa just after the Japanese surrendered look lika a breeze.

In one storm they had to bring the lookouts in from the wings of the bridge because there was danger of getting washed overboard. That was probably one of those northeasters that dump about 4 feet of snow on Maine. Richard W. Yost Sr. Millinocket